Arsenal travel to Stamford Bridge to play Chelsea on Saturday in what will be Arsene Wenger’s 1,000th game in charge of the Gunners.

They know that, should they win, they will close the gap on Jose Mouriniho’s side to just one point with a game in hand and the season rapidly coming to an exciting climax.

There is, of course, far more than just three points at stake on Saturday. Gloating rights come with this game, and the Chelsea fans with their selective memories have had far too many of them in recent years.

These are Chelsea fans who somehow think that football was only invented in the last ten years. Fans who forget their club almost went in to administration until they were saved by a billionaire. Fans who have no concept of earning your own trophies or how many there actually are in Arsenal’s trophy cabinet compared to Chelsea’s.

They seem to conveniently forget that it took them more than 50 years to win their first ever trophy, that they then went another 10 years without one, a further 50 without a title and during that time were relegated.

Arsenal have gone nine years without a trophy, ten without a title and during that time built a stadium and stayed in the top four of the league despite having to compete against the oil billionaires while operating on a restricted budget. For all their money and recent success the league title count still stands at 13 to four. 10 FA cups to seven.

Only for Chelsea did football ‘start’ in 2005.

Then, of course, there is the Mourinho factor.

Just after Mourinho called Wenger a ‘specialist in failure’, I wrote a piece on how the Portuguese wasn’t fit to zip up the Frenchman’s coat. It was well received by Arsenal fans and ensured me untold abuse from Chelsea ones. I expected nothing less when I wrote it to be honest but I stand by everything I said.

That Wenger has not managed to beat Mourinho is irksome to say the least. The master of the dark arts has managed to cheat and bore his way to victory more often than is acceptable for any Arsenal fan, but at the end of the day Arsenal need to find a way to break down stubborn sides should they wish to be crowned champions for the 14th time.

Mourinho is unbeaten at Stamford Bridge in the league and Wenger hasn’t been able to beat him anywhere. With Arsenal’s key men, Jack Wilshere, Aaron Ramsey, Theo Walcott and Mesut Ozil all sidelined, it would seem as if game 1,000 for Wenger will pass by without managing to overcome the evil one’s hoodoo.